·Specific Questions you have regarding implementation
Abstract
How can a school, district, or organization effectively organize itself to successfully train staff and implement Curriculum for the 21st century? How do you rethink your leadership structure to support and sustain lasting change? What is comprised in the training design and implementation plan? What content and skills need to be taught to ensure success? These are a few of the critical questions that schools, districts, and organization need to address to thoughtfully design a curriculum that will help their students be successful in their futures.
Full Description
It is has been our experience that successful implementation begins with a leadership team who works collaboratively to develop a comprehensive training design and professional development plan around the four phases of Mapping and quality curriculum design:
I. Laying the Foundation
The Prologue to Mapping and 21st Century Curriculum, Establishing the Reasons for Mapping, and Creating a Shared Vision.
II. Launching the Process / Getting Started
Ensuring Long-Term Support, Creating Individual Maps, Initiating the Review Process, Developing Consensus Maps, and Master Mapping Strategies||
III. Maintaining, Sustaining and Integrating Mapping into the System
Establishing Benchmark Assessments, Merging Assessment Results into Maps, Integrating Active Literacy in the Maps, Developing an Implementation Map/Plan, Making the HUB work: Integrating Other Initiatives||
IV. Advanced Mapping Tasks
Integrating 21st Century Skills, Replacing Dated Curriculum, Upgrading to Contemporary Assessment Types, and Rethinking School Formats and Structures.
The structure provides the framework for thoughtfully updating of your school's, district's, or organization's curriculum and assessment using the
mapping process.
It incorporates curriculum mapping software as a contemporary tool to share information virtually and provide efficient and effective collaboration. The goal is to
help each teacher and administrator move into dynamic and strategic use of 21st century tools, Web 2.0 applications, and global connections to expand the
classroom experience for their learners.
Jacobs, H. H. and Johnson, A. (2009). The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development. Alexandria, VA; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=109010
Jacobs, H. H. (to be released). Curriculum 21:New Essentials for 21st Century Learners. Alexandria, VA; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Jacobs, H.H. (1997). Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment
K-12. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Jacobs, H.H. (2004). Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
There are many kinds of "widgets" that can be connected to your community content area. Some formats will be activated as a "default" setting by the system, but others can be added as needed to make your community as dynamic and social as possible. Describe what widgets you'd like to see in your communty and how it will be used by participants. We'll take care to add the widget on your community page. Here is a partial list of possible widgets:
Moodle Course Software
Kaltura collaborative video editing services
Blog
Community bookmarks
Newsfeeds
Chatrooms
Social Media Messaging (Twitter, Facebook, Ning, eMail, IM, etc.)
Community Page Format:
Implementing Curriculum 21Using the Mapping Process
The Prologue to Mapping and 21st Century Curriculum, Establishing the Reasons for Mapping, and Creating a Shared Vision.
- II. Launching the Process / Getting Started
- Ensuring Long-Term Support, Creating Individual Maps, Initiating the Review Process, Developing Consensus Maps, and Master Mapping Strategies ||
- III. Maintaining, Sustaining and Integrating Mapping into the System
- Establishing Benchmark Assessments, Merging Assessment Results into Maps, Integrating Active Literacy in the Maps, Developing an Implementation Map/Plan, Making the HUB work: Integrating Other Initiatives ||
- IV. Advanced Mapping Tasks
- Integrating 21st Century Skills, Replacing Dated Curriculum, Upgrading to Contemporary Assessment Types, and Rethinking School Formats and Structures.
The structure provides the framework for thoughtfully updating of your school's, district's, or organization's curriculum and assessment using themapping process.
It incorporates curriculum mapping software as a contemporary tool to share information virtually and provide efficient and effective collaboration. The goal is to
help each teacher and administrator move into dynamic and strategic use of 21st century tools, Web 2.0 applications, and global connections to expand the
classroom experience for their learners.